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ASIC bans convicted fraud "mastermind"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
ASIC has banned the Australian "mastermind" of the UK's biggest ever boiler room scheme from practising financial services. From 2003 to 2007, Jeffrey Revell-Reade made A£70 million selling equities in non-existent companies via brokers in Madrid to ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... to purchase additional cover that ensures their commercial assets are fully protected, without having to go through the extra administrative step of sourcing and submitting a health assessment." Customers who have already made a TPD or crisis claim will ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... 1.3% (yoy) in April after being down 0.8% in March - would make the Fed lift in September instead of June (yay!). That's an extra three months for companies to refinance or issue debts at near zero interest rates to pay dividends or buyback their own ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
As Australia's extraordinary mining boom peters out, the Government is finally getting behind financial services exports and will invest $6 billion in free trade agreements (FTA) in Asia. "If we could lift our service exports like higher education ...

Bank results underpin wealth management new era

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
As the big four banks prepare for the end of the extraordinary bull run experienced since the global financial crisis, their wealth management arms also gear up for a new era. In a more challenging market and regulatory environment, the focus for the ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Magellan Asset Management has increased the cash weighting in its Global Equity Strategy from 10% to 15% in a bid to hedge the portfolio from an impending rise in US interest rates. Douglass argued that there is a "Great Disagreement" as to where the ...

PIMCO appoints Bernanke to advice role

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
PIMCO has appointed former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as senior adviser. Bernanke will contribute his economic expertise and insights to the firm's investment process and periodically engage PIMCO's clients, the bond ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... that the PBOC "will allow banks to swap local-government bailout bonds for loans". This would give the Australian dollar an extra boost. So will the RBA if it decides not to cut interest rates again next Tuesday. The hope is that at the current A$ exchange ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... closing at 5,982.69 points. However, this is the closest closing the S&P/ASX 200 index got to 6,000. Maybe it'll get that extra 17.31 points today. The price of Australia's major commodity export - iron ore - has started rebounding, up 5.5% to US$57.81 ...

Industry should help fund ASIC: ANZ

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... "Organisations who have sufficient strength should be allowed to self-insure, but those who don't should be allowed to take extra insurance," Hodges said.